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Hello everyone, I have been experimenting with Cairo-dock on my HP linux box, and had great success. I found the ways to edit a dock into exactly what I wanted it to be for a specific workspace GUI. This made me wonder if there was a scripted way to swap cairo themes, and a net search found this cod...

I have now run out of real estate and can call this conky compilation done. I found an external SSD w/USB plug cartoon character and made an external drive widget. I also found a nicer version of the calendar character, making unique hand signs and not wearing sunglasses. https://i.imgur.com/gEhwMrr...

I had really wanted to list the decibel frequencies above each of the EQ bars, but Koentje confirmed there is no way to determine this, so I settled for a title for the widget. The image is dynamic, swapping images depending on the playerctl status of "playing" or "paused/stopped"...

Can you post a screenshot of your conky? I would like to see what your Minimalis looks like. Sorry for the delay, here you go. (That's just a 'test' event under Calendar because I'm still working on the calendar script.) conky.png That looks great! Is the calendar event for google calendar by any c...

Pretty cool. But yea, cooking the bacon at 3.4GHz constant... seems weird. I can't even get to 3.4GHz and I only have 4 cores too, -guess I can't run that stuff. maybe it's just your constant gold mining. That's the spectrum equalizer, they calm down a lot when that isn't running. It looked like th...

zcot wrote: ⤴Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:01 pm Pretty cool.

But yea, cooking the bacon at 3.4GHz constant... seems weird. I can't even get to 3.4GHz and I only have 4 cores too, -guess I can't run that stuff.

maybe it's just your constant gold mining.

That's the spectrum equalizer, they calm down a lot when that isn't running.

I finally beat the correct answer out of the bot: ${offset 82}${voffset -4}${font Copperplate Gothic Light:size=12}${exec playerctl metadata xesam:artist | fold -sw17 | head -n 1} ${offset 82}${voffset 0}${font Copperplate Gothic Light:size=12}${exec playerctl metadata xesam:artist | fold -sw17 | se...

offset (pixels) Move text over by N pixels. See also $voffset. voffset (pixels) Change vertical offset by N pixels. Negative values will cause text to overlap. See also $offset. zcot@zcot-MF-7891:~$ fold --help Usage: fold [OPTION]... [FILE]... Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard out...

Theme matching EQ - an edit of Koentje's amazing spectrum equallizer:

It occurred to me that I had searched for hourglass cartoon character but not calendar cartoon character. I hit google and found this guy, another part of the set:

I'm on a roll!! Say hello to hourglass character and the new calendar made to fit into this gui

Hello everyone, I have this line in a NowPlaying conky: ${offset 82}${voffset -4}${font Copperplate Gothic Light:size=12}${exec playerctl metadata xesam:artist | fold -sw17}${offset 82} What I want is for the folded text to be offset to 82 like the line above it. The above script came from ChatGPT a...

I found some cartoon character music notes and assigned one to show on playerctl status = Stopped and another for Playing. Made a Cartoon char themed NowPlaying by borrowing code from the Mimosa conky. Rounded border added for conformity. This monitor real estate is coming along nicely :) https://i....

Hello all, I have cairo-dock running on a virtual machine and have found some beautiful themes for it. but not exactly what I was hoping to find. How difficult would it be to make a custom theme that was just a 1 pixel outline around a 100% transparent dock with rounded corners that is dynamic and e...

Here we go! I took an existing small weather widget with cartoon style icon set and added faces to them in GIMP to match the Minimalis characters. I like this darker blue and am going to set the Minimalis blues to this tone. I got the rounded-corner outline lua's applied to both and Koentje's transp...

I found another cartoon character for the set!! Say hello to the PC character. I have replaced live gauge tracking cpu0 load in MHz with the PC image and the ${nodename} display. I love the addition of the char and everything looks more balanced now without gauges split between top and bottom. Check...

But i see other artifacts... artifacts.png The .lua was an extensive edit of one of the templates you gave me by the ChatGPT, so not surprising that weird things are happening. I am just happy that I am getting accurate reading and a clean display with the individual files. I also just got an outli...

Koentje wrote: ⤴Sun Oct 06, 2024 10:48 pm Why do you use seperate lua files and seperate conky's for each cpu gauge???

I started with a single .lua containing all the gauges but for whatever reason, this broke the functionality of the outer numerals changing color.

zcot wrote: ⤴Sun Oct 06, 2024 9:19 pm No.

That's it.

Hey Zcot

How are you? Thank you for providing the answer, I appreciate it.

Hello all, I have just turned an old 6GB RAM win Vista machine into a Mint Xfce box. I installed wallset the animated wallpaper app and nothing seemed to go wrong, but since installing, it hasnt displayed either of the two .mp4 videos that work on my main Cinn daily driver: logansfury@CM5570:~$ wall...